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CEO Lilly will leave Mozilla
THE CEO of Mozilla, the outfit that develops the open source Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client, has decided to move on.
Writing in his blog, the biggest cheese at the Mozzarella Foundation, John Lilly said that he will leave the nonprofit company as soon as it can find a replacement.
He has been at the helm of Mozilla for two years and wants to become a venture partner at Greylock Partners, but said he will remain on Mozilla's board of directors.
Lilly joined Mozilla in 2005 and stepped up from chief operating officer to the chief executive spot in January 2008, taking over from Mitchell Baker, who became chairwoman of the board.
Soon after he joined Mozilla he took on Apple for distributing Safari as a download with Apple Software Update. He said that made it too easy for users to install software that they didn't ask for and might not want. "This is wrong, and borders on malware distribution practices," Lilly said at the time. He feared it would erode consumers' trust in security updates.
Later Lilly also criticized Microsoft's initial design for an EU Commission mandated "ballot screen" from which users would choose a web browser.
Lilly said that he wants to work with startup companies again but is proud of what he has done at Mozilla. µ
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Lilly is the man in the crows nest on the Titanic. He's just spotted the iceberg coming over the horizon and instead of sticking around to avert the disaster, has cut loose a lifeboat and fled. Yes, he has.